Group Comping Voicings Overview
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In this lesson, I give a quick overview about 2 GROUP COMPING VOICING Styles for Jazz Piano: what I call Orchestration 1 & Orchestration 2.
When comping in a group setting with a bass player, we don't need to play bass notes. Instead, we can play 2-handed Group Comping Voicings which are thinner but add more color to the sound. 1- Orchestration 1 is the middle of the piano and has 3 voicing structures a) 4 note open voicings, b) 5 note Quartal Voicings, or c) 6+ note clusters. 2- Orchestration 2 is the middle-high register and has just 1 voicing structure but variation within it: a) LH Rootless Voicings (3 or 4 note), b) RH Octave +1 or +2/polychords. You will find that all of the group comping voicings played by the legends - Kenny Barron, Mulgrew Miller, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock - can be traced back to one of these 2 orchestrations. |